LIFE QUOTES IX

quotations about life

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

ALANIS MORISSETTE

"Ironic"

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You can buy life only with life.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Rain Taxi, winter 2000/2001

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Life is a banquet of unexpected flavors. Sometimes you like the taste, sometimes you don't.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


Life is more sweet than I
Knew: the shifted scene
Less wavered, more trimmed with light,
Than the years before.
Look down. People pass over the ice
As a file of thin ghosts creep,
And fade beyond the hill.
You, and you, and you--
Small souls, shrinking away.

MARK TURBYFILL

"Journey"


But frankly, take life as it is--life, I mean, regarded by itself--life on this earth, without a thought of the hereafter, your life, my life, human life in general, considered under its purely earthly aspects and relationships; let us look at it as a whole, and we must admit that it is not all darkness; it has its crimson dawns, its rosy sunsets. It is not all clouds, it is not all winter; but it has its summer days in which "it is a luxury to breathe the breath of life."

JAMES PLATT

"Is Life Worth Living?", Platt's Essays


To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

ANAIS NIN

diary, Mar. 6, 1936


If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

ROBERT STONE

Dog Soldiers

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I think we can all agree life is a lot better when a dog chasing bears is one of the biggest news stories of the day.

JOHN HALTIWANGER

"This Savage Dog Chased Bears Out Of Its Neighborhood Like A Total Boss", Elite Daily, September 1, 2016


Life is made up of marble and mud.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

The House of the Seven Gables

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What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

TERESA OF AVILA

The Interior Castle

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Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

DEAN KOONTZ

Velocity

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All research suggests that life on this Earth is an accident, that if you take a kettle of primordial soup and shake it enough, shock it enough, even freeze it enough, you get organic compounds. Allow these compounds to suffer random accidents long enough and you get life. That's life with a capital L. The fundamentalists are outraged that something as sacred and important as Life could be an accident. They want it to be a result of a command, a plan, a blueprint, a simple, orderly, well-engineered, easily understood project designed by a deity who ... would figure all tolerances and fudge them by a safety factor of five or ten. Well, fuck them. Accidents happen. We're one of them.

DAN SIMMONS

Lovedeath

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Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain.

EMIL CIORAN

A Short History of Decay

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She seemed to listen to life as though life were the most cunning and charming of confidence men: knowing perfectly well that she was being conned, she, nevertheless, again and again, gave the man the money for the Brooklyn Bridge. She never gained possession of the bridge, of course, but she certainly learned how to laugh. And the tiny lines in her face had been produced as much by laughter as by loss.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

FREDERIK POHL

Gateway


I just can't get used to life.

EUGENE IONESCO

Rhinoceros

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

"Modern Fiction", The Common Reader

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We look back upon our life only as on a thing of broken pieces, because our misses and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have done and attained.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe